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Apple can’t be the only tech giant with great deals for Black Friday. Microsoft is joining the craze, offering three Windows Phone devices for free (with a two-year carrier contract) at their online store. Smartphones included in this special offer, include: HTC Arrive for Sprint HTC Trophy for Verizon Wireless HTC Radar 4G for T-Mobile…
Remember Jil Sander Mobile LG-E906, the fancy-lookin’ Windows Phone device we talked about back in August? Well, it’s now available in the UK, exclusively through Expansys. The popular phone retailer is selling the smartphone for 299.99 GBP, which translates into about $466. Yeah, I know that’s a lot for a device that doesn’t actually sit…
The latest report from Distimo is focusing on Windows Phone, partly as a celebration of its one-year birthday. Among their findings were figures for daily app downloads in the U.S., which includes 20,000 paid downloads each day, and 101,000 free apps each day. Distimo also agrees with other recent metrics that puts the total number…
As support for near-field communication on mobile phones slowly expands, there are two major platforms still holding off. Apple’s iOS and Windows Phone have yet to add NFC capabilities to their respective operating systems, but Digitimes is reporting that both companies are working to change that. NFC support for iOS and Windows Phone is expected…
James Faucette, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities, thought that Nokia would easily sell over 2 million Windows Phones by the end of this year. After doing some sell-through checks however, he revised his estimates down to just 500,000 units. Not exactly the type of news the Finnish handset maker needs right now. Faucette’s latest…
Microsoft has acquired VideoSurf and the company plans to use its video-discovery technology in a variety of products including the Xbox and maybe Windows Phone. The VideoSurf app is found on multiple Android handsets and it’s similar to IntoNow because it can identify what you’re watching. Unlike IntoNow, the VideoSurf app also uses visual recognition…
Call me a sucker, but I love “behind the scenes” type content. It’s one thing to read about the guts of a product, another to read someone’s impressions of using said product, but seeing it being put together … that’s just a totally different level. The folks at Nokia Conversations, the official Nokia corporate blog,…
Last week we saw a video on Nokia’s YouTube channel that showed off an as yet to be announced Windows Phone. Seeing as how we thought Nokia would unveil three Windows Phones at Nokia World, yet they only showed off the Lumia 710 and Lumia 800, we assumed that the device is said video was…
The Windows Phone Marketplace continues to grow at a steady rate. In little over a year, the Marketplace now has over 40,000 published apps according to an estimate from All About Windows Phone. This number is not the total available to consumers, but the total number that has been submitted to the online store. An…
If you want a Windows Phone handset, now is the perfect time to buy. The holiday shopping season is about to start and there will be plenty of discounts on handsets. To sweeten the deal, Microsoft is also offering a $25 prepaid App card for every person who buys a new Windows Phone handset. The $25 card…